Tolkien's Battles

[Eol]

The battle I can remmeber the best is the battle of Sudden Flame as well as the Fifth battle.

Tolkien wrote what he knew and was pretty cool stuff. That particualar battle had an old world flavor from civilazations long since passed. There was bravery and anger( such as Gwindor charged the heralds after they publicly slaughtered his brother, terribly gruesome but fitting) and foolishness( gwindor rushing the heralds but never receiving the backup he needed, everyone died, several captured and tortured).

It has been a while since I have read the second and third book of LOTR and honestly the battles there were sufficent enough for the story(from what I can recall from last year).

Battles are very hard to write if dragged out too long. Keep them short and sweet and they generally have a better affect. This is only for the actual fighting, now if there are successive battles ands scrimishes, you have to treat that a little differently.

[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: Eol ]